Inside Aura: Building a Live AI Fashion Agent with Gemini Live, Vertex AI, and Google Cloud

Hackathon disclosure: This article was created for the purposes of entering the Gemini Live Agent Challenge. Fashion apps are usually good at one part of the journey and weak at the rest. Some are good for inspiration. Some are good for catalog search. Some are good for checkout. But real style decisions do not happen in isolated tabs. They happen in messy, human moments where confidence, context, budget, taste, and time pressure all collide. That is what we built for with Anyaself and Aura . Project links Live app: https://www.anyaself.com Source code: https://github.com/gotapc/anyaself Tech stack Aura and Anyaself are built using: Gemini Live API for real-time voice interaction Vertex AI for agent orchestration Google Cloud Run for service deployment Firestore for mission and application state Cloud Storage for media and generated assets Why we built this Getting dressed is not just a visual decision. It is identity in motion . It is what you wear to a hard meeting when your confiden